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Pukaki was an 18th-century chief of the Arawa iwi of New Zealand.

His portrait appears on the New Zealand 20 cent coin minted from 1990 to 2008.

The name has been used for several New Zealand items:

  • Pukaki, one of the volcanic cones of the Auckland volcanic field
  • Lake Pukaki, a lake in Canterbury, New Zealand
  • Pukaki River, a river in Canterbury
  • HMNZS Pukaki, the name used by three ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy

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Lake Pukaki

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Lake Pukaki (Māori: Pūkaki) is the largest of three roughly parallel alpine lakes running north–south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin on...

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Pukaki

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Pukaki was an 18th-century chief of the Arawa iwi of New Zealand. His portrait appears on the New Zealand 20 cent coin minted from 1990 to 2008. The name...

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Pukaki River

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The Pukaki River flows through the Mackenzie Basin, Canterbury, in New Zealand's South Island. Originally, the river flowed southwest for 15 kilometres...

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Pukaki Airport

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Pukaki Airport (IATA: TWZ, ICAO: NZUK) is a small airport in the Mackenzie District of the South Island of New Zealand. The airport is located about 3 km...

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HMNZS Pukaki

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HMNZS Pukaki is a name which has been used by three ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy: HMNZS Pukaki (F424), was a frigate, 1948–66 HMNZS Pukaki (1975)...

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Frigate Range

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north. Features of the range, from west to east, include Mount Hawea, Mount Pukaki, Mount Rotoiti and Mount Wyss. 82°50′S 161°52′E / 82.833°S 161.867°E...

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HMS Loch Achanalt

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After the war she was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy and renamed Pukaki. Loaned to the Royal Canadian Navy, the ship was commissioned on 31 July...

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Twizel

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along the Tekapo Canal before skirting around the Lake Pukaki shoreline and across the Pukaki Flats to Twizel. Stage 3 of the Alps 2 Ocean runs from Twizel...

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Waitaki River

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station at the edge of Lake Pukaki. The dam at Pukaki was increased in height. Water from Pukaki is then transferred into the Pukaki Canal which meets the Ohau...

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Lake Tekapo

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Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand (the others are Lake Pukaki and Lake Ōhau). It covers an area of 83 km2 (32 sq mi) and is at an altitude...

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Pukaki Lagoon

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Pukaki Lagoon, located in the suburb of Māngere, New Zealand, is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field. The lagoon, alongside Māngere Lagoon...

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Tasman River

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Valley in the Southern Alps and into the northern end of the glacial Lake Pukaki, this forming part of the ultimate headwaters of the Waitaki hydroelectric...

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Tekapo River

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the Pukaki River and flowing into the northern end of Lake Benmore. However, the water from Lake Tekapo is now diverted via a canal to Lake Pukaki as part...

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List of dams and reservoirs in New Zealand

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station at the edge of Lake Pukaki. The dam at Pukaki was increased in height. Water from Pukaki is then transferred into the Pukaki Canal which meets the Ōhau...

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Mackenzie District

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Tekapo River Pukaki River Grays River Mountains: Aoraki / Mount Cook Lakes: Lake Tekapo and the 'Church of the Good Shepherd'. Lake Pukaki Lake Ruataniwha...

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Rock flour

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and heavy rain periods. Examples of this phenomenon may be seen at Lake Pukaki and Lake Tekapo in New Zealand, Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, Emerald Lake...

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Anabarhynchus albipennis

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found at Lake Pukaki in Canterbury. It was described by Lief Lyneborg in 1992 using a specimen collected by W. J. Thompson at Lake Pukaki. The male holotype...

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Royal New Zealand Navy

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the New Zealand government ordered two Loch-class frigates – Tutira and Pukaki to prepare to make for Korean waters, and for the whole of the war, at least...

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